just go to get closer. to the little bit of those were. the headlines on r.t. international. says russia will take retaliatory measures against the u.s. if washington continues to crack down on russian media in america. washington stresses the importance of a unified iraq despite its support for kurdish forces which continue to seek independence. plus cambridge university being issued with warnings of a potentially distressing material in classic literature a move that is seen as over the top by some. if you're reading literature you

should expect to have some surprises i think the problem with the wealthy's days is that there's just so much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do. all of us here at the international in moscow a very warm welcome to you we have your latest friday world headlines any attacks against russian media won't go on and so it. warns that if washington continues with its pressure campaign against channel and other outlets moscow will take similar measures. she just has to do what we are seeing right now and what is happening around our media isn't comparable and much less powerful than argue s. and u.k. counterparts i don't even know what to call it they're flipping everything upside down. we're going to mirror any action we take and we will take action fast as soon

as we see any steps being taken to restrict our media outlets the witch hunters the russian foreign ministry spokesperson describes it spiraled last month when the justice department demanded that oddity america register under the cold war era foreign agents act russia says the move when dissolved work in america will have quote serious legal consequences and as the pressure grows has also been suddenly pulled from you tube's premium appetising list in america with no notice given in response moscow has now said it's not ruling out counter measures against us media outlets working here in russia and with a foreign agent deadline now passed and r.t. america still not registering washington's next move remains to be seen. dial hawkins has more from the valdai for. putin was very clear that any move to restrict such press freedoms would result in very much negative media environment

this is all part of what he also described as a lever of anti russian news theory and russian campaigning and rhetoric in the united states which really began in earnest towards the end of last year the start of this year when hillary clinton lost the presidential election to donald trump and has continued to this day with attempts by government officials by media to find any links to russia wherever possible in any controversial american issue evidence of russian hacking russian meddling interference operations by intelligence services etc he also added that the u.s. actions against russian diplomats and russian diplomatic facilities across the united states was the result of a build up of problems issues between the two states. it's the u.s. who put up with some precedent and then play russian campaign which was not provoked by anything someone lost the elections to mr trump and russia was blamed for this then the unfolded the russian hysteria and now any failure will be

connected to us it wasn't all negative however your putin did believe that such problems are resolved in the long run and its forums such as the valdai we're here today that provided an opportunity to discuss debate and share ideas about how exactly to go forward in constructive dialogue to resolve these issues as opposed to engage in hostile ramping up of rhetoric and threats on both sides we discussed this issue with a number of experts they believe that the campaign against russian media contradicts the very idea of democracy which the u.s. considers itself to be a beacon of suggesting that the american people are completely unable to think for themselves or that are other media companies or some have somehow become the dominant media in america first of all not true and it's also just not very likely our most fundamental principle is the freedom of press which says that as. press you have the right to share information without explaining yourself to anybody and that is a fundamental constitutional freedom on which this country was founded the idea of

going against that in this kind of really petty bureaucratic way is absolutely something that we oppose during the first cold war the us would always claim complain that countries were jamming the voice of america right and they said that's not fair they should be able to hear the voice of america well then why can't we hear our tea are splitting it in a serious political social and really spiritual crisis in the united states right now the hatred of rushes in the d.n.a. of the american people so it's easy to blame them for trial for racism for police killings or whatever and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley appears to be following the trend dog s. just mentioned the envoy of russia for alleged meddling of the twenty sixth you know election and accused of being made in america wolf almost a year with no evidence of her being supported but haley went even further alleging

the kremlin was engaged in a war against a number of countries and country can come and our fear and another country's elections that is warfare it really is because you're making sure that the democracy shifts from what the people want to giving out that less information and we didn't just say here you can look at france and you can look at other countries they are doing this everywhere this is their new weapon of choice why are americans anti russian and why have we done the sanctions well don't interfere in our elections and we won't be anti russian nikki haley is not alone in firing accusations at russia with one of the loudest critics being the very post who claims she lost the election due to a russian meddling. many members of parliament have been asked by russia.

and france that crowned the campaign when they can't buy up after cyber attack just before their president. nobody ever the russian has one hundred two emails no civil civil war that is not possible to seduce bisley a stated goal was to a criminal group it really time be anyone. still the simplicity of the technical part can make us think you just assume. you created it and so this person can be in any country with any kind of motivation. maybe you've even seen the ads and london underground one russian state funded propaganda distort bragging watch our t.v.

and find out who we are planning to. the fact is they're also opening a new scottish bureau. all she wants to do is continue to blame other people and continue to cast doubt and she choose russia causing discord in the united states but really in the speech that she gave recently she actually cast the most discord by saying that it's everybody else's fault and the government failed in it's russia's fault that she lost and nobody is even claiming that russia cast votes for people in america is made the decisions that they made so i think with hillary clinton bringing up europe that was her attempt to say i'm not just blaming russia it's isn't just baseless they've done it else. there there are some voices of the american public that actually are saying the they're sick of it they don't want to read it anymore they don't want to see anymore headlines of russia when they know there has to be other things going on in the world. u.k.

law makers are once again at odds over the country's role in syria in a debate in the house of lords questions were raised over funding of the so-called syrian opposition and what exactly taxpayers' money is really being used for if the government gives two hundred million to opposition groups and only fourteen or four year didn't quite catch which it was was for political support what on earth was the rush for the forty million this specifically in terms of political support other examples for example thirty nine million has been spent on roads i will of course look right to the noble lord in terms of specific breakdown but it's very much about the system the coalition the syrian opposition to actually stand on its feet and why does her majesty's government not recognize that that does not go anywhere does my noble friend really think that british taxpayers want fourteen million pounds spent on supporting so-called opposition that would be better spent on fuel poverty limited government changed their priorities from providing that

massive financial support to opposition groups which are not moderate and make every effort to achieve the lifting of sanctions and caroline cox raised the issue of the u.k.'s spending in syria in the british parliament calling for greater transparency she actually traveled to syria herself to get a better understanding of the conflict there but says the british government is not too keen on getting that side of the story. we got some amazing figures something like two hundred million a year and the government said is going to moderate opposition but our concern is that there really is not believed to be any moderate opposition and tool to be very concerned it's actually going to islamist related groups and that it may be prolonging the war would be putting down more questions to ask the government to give more explicit and detailed information precisely how much is going where it's going and i would rather british government was doing more to. positive proposals

to help the syrian people and particularly the lifting of sanctions i. i got a lot of aggression after a visit to syria we did meet president has said i do not in any way condone some of the very serious things he has done but i went to listen to the syrian people the british government was not pleased with me because they tried to prevent me from going they tried to tell me how dangerous it was well i spent a lot of my life working with people who were suffering from war and depression and persecution and i used my vote in the house of lords to try to be a voice for these is voices are not heard and i want to talk eat you schuman rights official also found himself in the line of fire after visiting syria and was forced to resign in the wake of the trip earlier this year. joined russian lawmakers during a visit to damascus where he met with president bashar al assad e.u. officials however took issue with the wrong day for you since quit europe's main

human rights watchdog that we said if he does not regret taking the trip. but that this process in which all of the employees threw up when i saw in the wall i saw a lot over a short period of time i only spent twenty four hours there but i noticed a strong russian influence on the country or so that russia was very serious about fighting international terrorism and i saw other countries including turkey and those in the u.s. led international coalition are also making considerable efforts to put an end to what's causing the majority of europe's problems terrorism the influx of refugees and migration most of which are rooted in syria seeing that and i realize that much closer cooperation between the countries combating terrorism is needed as i've said before some parliaments would prefer to return to the cold war but times have changed i've always considered russia to be a european country and that europe is inconceivable without russia and vice versa although some didn't like it i did what i wanted and if i had a chance to go back in time i would have done everything just the same as i

including you would have even travel to syria in iraq and of course. kurdish peshmerga forces or retract their positions along the ota bill at kota coke road on this road right here heading northwest and the iraqi army has taken up positions further in the south here and three days earlier repelled the kurds from heading up northwards now the strategic oil rich city has been under the control of kurdish forces since the fall of saddam hussein of course that was two thousand and three the government operation in the city began after the kurds independence referendum in september which was declared illegal by iraq's prime minister the iraqi government explained that the move was to quote impose security despite previous u.s. claims in support of the kurds that washington is now talking about a unified iraq with federal elections looming in baghdad some controversy here the explanation with artie's so america and. ever since the invasion of iraq in the

early two thousand the internal politics of the country has been of great importance to us especially when it comes to the region and the u.s. has now found itself in a tight spot over its alliance with the kurds but the kurds were once a top u.s. ally i think we need to arm and train and equip their pressure. the kurdish government. and their strong starch allies we should be using the kurdish we should be arming the kurdish region to be that this matters really proving to be the most really doing just what the law stands. for in the kurds or the pressure on the front lines fighting us and now us trying to government troops are clashing with kurdish forces in kirkuk and the pentagon is trying to downplay the conflict this all comes at a pivotal time for iraqi kurds right after september independence referendum which the u.s. has shown no sign of supporting we hope for a unified iraq to annihilate isis and certainly

a unified iraq to push back on iran so if the us has named ron as the second greatest threat after i saw so countering iran could very well be the driving force behind the us abandoning its support curt's i don't want to use the word betrayal but we definitely feel the united states has been negligent iraq's upcoming election set for april two thousand and eighteen may become a make or break moment for the us and could possibly affect its objectives in the region april's election is a choice between the vice president of the leaking often describe the subtly and tell us and ron and the current president a body is that all it's with what you have here the moment you have a prime minister in iraq who is supported by the americans the previous prime minister who's waited in the wings which is the extreme part which is very close to the reins and the united states made it clear to the kurdish leadership before they're a friend last. this. september that they wished to delay the refer to the middle

east the iraqi election the next spring so if the us. a body's problem the kurdish resistance washington will be forced to choose between two allies it's apparently not the kurds. on washington d.c. . so shakespeare's plays now come with a warning label that cambridge university more than four hundred years after they were written the reason why more than a mark. in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around core. corporations washington. media. business to run this country business. you must it's not business as

usual it's business like it's never been done before. most people think just this is this you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice so the biggest reason. to stand lose is just the right questions and get the right answer. question. good to have you with us today for your world news students at cambridge university

are being warned over the plays of shakespeare in case of potential distress some of the works contain scenes of sexual assault and violence. polly boyko now takes a closer look at why the bard more than four hundred years later is now suddenly causing concern. ok to me from their worse than killing last and tumble me into some loathsome pit whenever man's i may behold my body do this and be a charitable murderer so should i rolled my sweet sons of their fee no let them satisfy their lost the that's a snippet from shakespeare is a first tragedy titus andronicus the play features graphic violence gang rape and fourteen murders and now certain english lecturers at cambridge university are putting special warnings on that timetables when they're going to be covering

potentially distressing topics like these they're going to have to have a lot of disclaimers with the works of shakespeare though some of his plays can be very gory they feature things like incest rape murder and suicide they also happen to have kept people talking about thorny issues like close relations race relations and anti semitism for centuries i want to know what the people visiting the famous shakespeare globe theatre in london have to say about the warnings i think. demis down the students oh you're not mature enough for smart enough to be able to handle this without a warning. four hundred use. being good enough for them. if you're reading literature you should expect to have some surprises you expect to be shocked to see or simulate that particular student i think the problem

with the world these days is that there's just so much focus on being offended by everything that people are just so scared of what they can actually say or do cambridge university has told me that any warnings that they put out are the initiative of individual professes and that it's not a policy adopted by the english department as a whole. by the way when the globe series is staged tied to some johnny three years ago several people fainted from the graphic violence including one of the theories to critics reviewing the show that very same critics still gave the production an exceptional review art isn't always comfortable the most challenging arts can be anything bought and now there are growing concerns not just in academic circles that modern students are being too morally called old if they can't handle the content in classic literature how are they going to cope with life in general the

university has been criticized for the warnings the artistic director of the cambridge shakespeare festival says students shouldn't study literature if they're not aware his works put tray violence the same morning it seems could be applied not just to shakespeare's works. sikes batters nancy to death in her bed the corpse is so deformed that the person who identifies her body is so scared by the experience that they're led away in a straight jacket. on. your new court sullen people's half devil child.

his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the scene hughie forearm and restore dawson's scar the puncture marks finally thrust the sharp point home press down the time. the us branch of the human rights group reprieve has launched an investigation into what it describes as trump's drone assassination program and the activists are concerned that it could weaken constraints on the use of lethal weapons set by the previous administration leading the way to a greater number of civilian casualties the program lifts the restriction on drone use to imminent or inevitable threats it also reportedly allows the military to use drones outside of conventional war zones and the authorization process for the use

of drones in cia covert operations has been simplified paving the way for quicker and more frequent employment by the u.s. now according to a report compiled by the columbia law school human rights institute in june the number of you. drone strikes increased four fold during president trumps six months in office the data also revealed the white house's own acknowledged barely twenty percent of its total reported drone strikes and one expert told us that ultimately at the end of the day drones execute people without trial it appears that are true rules are changed to expand dramatically the numbers of people who will be under surveillance and who will be attacked by american crowds who are pretending accounting militants against civilians was always a way i'm not part of the us. sanitizing what they were doing both saying

you know we have information that justifies our killing these people unfortunately these other people died in fact no one who was executed ever by us drones have ever been inside a courtroom and so there's really no way to make that distinction. more than twenty five thousand students from all around the globe have gathered in the russian resort of sochi where the world festival of youth and students is now underway the festival was last held in russia in one thousand nine hundred five and many of the volunteers that were involved in it back event are now eager to experience all the joy they had once again. good. good good. for all of them from coming in so.

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